Accounting › Product Costing
Overhead Rules
How indirect cost is added on top. Crude, universal, and exactly what activity-based costing was invented to replace — which is why both are supported.
Where to find it
- Module: Accounting
- Group: Planning & Control
- Section: Product Costing
- Screen: Overhead Rules
Address in the console: /accounting/overhead-rules
List · 9 columns · 17 fields on its form · 2 of them required
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Seq | Number | sequence_no |
| Rule | Code | code |
| Name | Text | name |
| Charged on | Code | base_component |
| Method | Status | method |
| Rate % | Number | rate_pct |
| Lands on | Code | target_component |
| Credited to | Code | credit_cost_center_code |
| Active | Yes or no | is_active |
The form
What is asked for when a record is created here. Required fields are marked; a choice drawn from a configuration list is one an administrator can extend without a release.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code required | Text | ||
| Name required | Text | ||
| Costing variant | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Charged on component | Choice | Configuration list | |
| Or on element category | Text | ||
| Method | Choice | percentage, per_unit, per_hour, activity_based, fixed | |
| Rate % | Number | ||
| Amount per unit | Number | ||
| Credit cost center | Choice | Looked up from existing records | An overhead charged to a product must be credited somewhere, or the company’s total cost silently grows. |
| Credit element | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Target component | Choice | Configuration list | |
| Item group | Text | ||
| Plant | Text | ||
| From | Date | ||
| To | Date | ||
| Sequence | Number | ||
| Active | Yes or no |
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.
- Creating a record — required fields, where choices come from, and how the number is allocated.
- Importing a spreadsheet — this screen accepts one, and it runs through the same rules as typing.